My tests with "Vostok" shows what current FlightGear atmosphere have serious issues in means of high altitude flights.
On reentry dynamic pressure inverts and have negative values on 60...50km. That can be tested by dropping any FG JSBSim based craft from altitudes higher than 60km, from, say, 200.000ft. Setting /environment/params/control-fdm-atmosphere to false in runtime as Anders had propose does nothing. Setting /environment/params/control-fdm-atmosphere to false in set file by other Anders proposition <environment> <params> <control-fdm-atmosphere type="bool">0</control-fdm-atmosphere> </params> </environment> makes atmosphere pressure to be equal to sea level pressure on any altitude. It seems to be inner FlightGear issue since standalone JSBSim tests do not shows negative qbar in same trajectory conditions. It have other problems, air pressure what seems to not depends of altitude if altitude is high enough and equals 0.008310 on any high altitude, but not antimatter in the middle. Links of source files of standalone JSBSim test included. vostok-reentry-test.xml http://pastebin.com/jxNuV952 vostok-reentry-test-runscript.xml http://pastebin.com/fKNupar3 vostok-reentry-test-reset.xml http://pastebin.com/bc60amQz how-to-start.txt http://pastebin.com/4Yt2CaGV With best regards, Victor Slavvutinsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel